In the next few moments or so, The WordPress Counter rolled over 500,000 downloads of the new WordPress 2.7.

The WordPress Counter is restarted with every version release.

So let’s do a little math, with a reminder that I’m not good at math.

Using the handy date calculation tool from Timeanddate.com, from and including Thursday, December 11, 2008, to and including Friday, December 19, 2008, nine days have passed. The tool told me this equals:

777,600 seconds (0.643 downloads a second)

12,960 minutes (38.58 downloads per minute)

216 hours (2,314.81 downloads per hour)

That’s some serious bandwidth action. Go download WordPress 2.7 now and let’s see how fast we can reach one million. By Monday? Wednesday? Anyone taking bets? 😉

If it takes 0.64 seconds per download, how long before the WordPress 2.7 download counter will read one billion? Want to guess? Place more bets?

23 Comments

While I’ve recycled the same download a couple times, I also have a couple installations running 2.7 which I got from trunk. I’m guessing that SVN updates aren’t counted, so there have probably already been over a million downloads! That’s pretty cool if you ask me.

So the math goes that if we download once and assume a good majority of us have more than one blog (and friends who need help upgrading), then the 500,000 should get multiplied by what? Two? Four? If we add SVN updates…how can we ever keep score?

It is definitely a great achievement…numbers tells everything… And the best things, it is 100% powered by WordPress 2.7. From theme to plugin, eveything seems to be working fine…I love WordPress so much..do check it out..

It sounds like you were the lucky one, Miroslav. I had to step out to get something to eat (been glued to the computer ALL day with work – HAD to eat) and got distracted. Missed the very moment. You are the lucky winner of all the attention in the world.

So did you post it yet on your blog? Where is the trackback? 😀 Need a place to send everyone to if you got the closest to the 500,000 roll over!

I updated through Instant Update on the blogs I admin, so I can’t recycle. I had one problem in forgetting to disable the Fluency Admin plug-in. Caused a bit of havoc, as I couldn’t access my plug-ins screen. 😦 Finally I got to it through the browser history, and discovered that Fluency has a new version written for 2.7!

I just downloaded and upgraded one of my sites to WordPress v2.7 and I think I am absolutely in love with the new interface. Everything just seems so much easier to navigate through and manage. I love that you can install plugin’s without having to fire up your FTP and I can’t wait to be able to upgrade WordPress with the new 1-click install that has been added…. that is one feature I have been hoping to get for a very long time. I currently own two of my own domains and I can’t wait to upgrade the other one. Thank you so much to all of the awesome people who puts wordpress together for us.

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